The Holy Spirit plays a pivotal part in us coming to salvation and thereafter in the assurance of our salvation. Part of the process of Christ being formed in us is that the Holy Spirit helps us to put to death the misdeeds of the flesh. He also provides the grace and power to resist temptation, ungodliness and unrighteousness. His help to successfully resist temptation, results in us having authority in that particular area. It is essential that we have a deeper relationship with this awesome third person of the godhead, the Holy Spirit, and not ignore him. We should rather become more aware, sensitive and obedient to his voice, unction, feelings and instructions. While we co-operate with him by doing our part which is to work out our salvation, he is busy working in our lives to become godly. In ourselves we are ordinary, but an extraordinary Holy Spirit has been poured out upon us, which means that at some point we will become extraordinary as well. The Holy Spirit empowers us to be witnesses (or martyrs) for Christ through the death to self. Our relationship with, and how the Holy Spirit operates, is something mystical. It cannot really be explained but has to be walked and lived out. Because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, He is absolutely essential in the process of our transformation into Christlikeness, since He makes everything pertaining to Christ a reality in our lives. Our relationship with the Holy Spirit is symbiotic, and as we obey, He brings life and forms Christ in us, preserving us blameless. He enables us to know what this Christlikeness looks like and how to become that which we already are. We have been gifted with the Holy Spirit and are his permanent dwelling place, making us vessels of glory. He is the one who establishes us in Christ, is our anointing from God, and has been given to us as a seal, a guarantee that we are genuine children of God. We must always keep in mind that we are not own but have been bought with the price of Jesus’s blood and thus belong to God. It therefore behoves us to co-operate with him. That is always to our benefit as well as bringing glory to God.